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Place Vendمome, Paris
The author presents a fully illustrated history of the Place Vendمome in Paris, France, including a chronological listing of owners for each of the square's addresses.
Book
Sunday morning. Hermes : 'tis the season
This Sunday Morning episode, produced by Anthony Laudato, is about the Hermes brand of luxury goods.
Streaming Video
The Language of Success: Marketing and Distributing Semi-Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris
With recourse to two main sources, trading almanacs and ledgers, this article is intended to establish the crucial role played by eighteenth-century Parisian shopkeepers in accelerating new modes of consuming. The uniqueness of Paris as a market rested on the strong influence of the court. Craftsmen and shopkeepers knowingly exploited the rule of distinction borne by their clients and invented novelties and launched fashions capable of enticing them. Their advertising thus focused on a multi-faceted notion of quality: quality as it related to the shopkeeper, to the consumer, to the shop and to the products. Always on the lookout for novelty, aristocrats were the great suppliers of quality goods. Invariably short of cash, they used such goods as a means of payment to tradesmen, who stood at the centre of a triple market, made up of new and second-hand goods and those sold on credit. High quality and imitation, new and old: shopkeepers used a wide qualitative vocabulary to attract customers. This is how the semi-luxury market developed also among the less affluent. Thus, apparently archaic practices such as barter were in fact used to promote a new market, a semi-luxury market, and are essential to understanding the eighteenth-century consumer explosion.
Journal Article
Rags and riches: a survey of fashion
Explores the high-end fashion industry; haute couture and luxury brands, dominance of Paris, Milan, and New York City, and roles of designers, management, family corporations, celebrities, models, and labor. Role of the Fédération Française de la Couture, and prêt-à-porter des Couturiers et des Créatices de Mode.
Magazine Article
PARIS Louise Feuillere
Ms. Feuillere learned to sew at the knee of her grandmother, and though her parents urged her to become an accountant, she went on to study art history at the Sorbonne and design at l'Ecole Superieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode, the venerable Parisian school of fashion design commonly known as Esmod.
Newspaper Article
Salons History Never Knew
A pioneer of scatter art goes back to her hometown with more high-glamour fantasies.
Newspaper Article